England’s National Health Service will invest £4.2 billion ($6.1 billion) on an effort to go paperless and shift chronically ill people to remote patient monitoring, multiple British news sources reported Monday. The spending includes hiring patient safety guru Dr. Robert Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco, to review IT infrastructure across the NHS.
In addition to Wachter, former national health IT coordinator Dr. David Brailer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO Dr. John Halamka and patient advocate “E-Patient” Dave DeBronkart are among the heavy U.S. representation on the review committee.
“Improving the standard of care patients receive even further means embracing technology and moving towards a fully digital and paperless NHS,” UK Health Minister Jeremy Hunt said in a statement. “NHS staff do incredible work every day and we must give them and patients the most up-to-date technology – this review will tell us where we need to go further.” For the full article click here
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